<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>Asteroid Cruises Past Earth ... With a Partner!  : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>Asteroid Cruises Past Earth ... With a Partner!  : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asteroid Cruises Past Earth ... With a Partner! ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/68811/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A good-sized asteroid sailing past our planet right now turns out to be two giant rocks doing a celestial jig.<br/><br/>The setup, catalogued as 2008 BT18, was thought to be nearly a half-mile wide after its discovery by MIT's LINEAR search program in January. Nothing else was known about it.]]></description></item><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;margin-bottom:-20px'><SCRIPT src="/ads/adsense.js" type=text/javascript></SCRIPT>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Large Asteroid to Fly Past Earth]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48287/1/</link><description><![CDATA[An asteroid that's likely as big as several football fields will fly past Earth next week. Astronomers said the space rock will be visible the night of Jan. 29 to amateur astronomers with modest-sized telescopes.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Asteroid May Hit Earth in 2036]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42751/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Astronomers have gotten a better handle on the limitations of asteroid-track forecasting in a new study of a potentially threatening asteroid called 99942 Apophis.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space Rocks Could Reseed Life on Earth]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/61938/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Asteroid and comet impacts on Earth can cause catastrophic extinction events. They can also bring life back, new research shows.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long-Lost, Dangerous Asteroid Is Found Again]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38293/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Astronomers have learned that a recently observed asteroid - one that could potentially hit the Earth - was actually first observed nearly a half-century ago. Researchers at the Minor Planet Center have confirmed work by SETI Institute astronomer Peter Jenniskens that the recently discovered asteroid 2007 RR9 is in fact the long-lost object 6344 P-L.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[65-million-year-old asteroid impact triggered a global hail of carbon beads]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/60789/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The asteroid presumed to have wiped out the dinosaurs struck the Earth with such force that carbon deep in the Earth's crust liquefied, rocketed skyward, and formed tiny airborne beads that blanketed the planet, say scientists from the U.S., U.K., Italy, and New Zealand in this month's Geology.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arecibo Observatory Astronomers Discover First Near-Earth Triple Asteroid]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/50723/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Once considered just your average single asteroid, 2001 SN263 has now been revealed as the first near-Earth triple asteroid ever found. The asteroid -- with three bodies orbiting each other -- was discovered this week by astronomers at the radar telescope at the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Racine Sophomores Discover Asteroid]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/47397/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The students at Racine's Prairie School will be able to name the asteroid, temporarily identified as &quot;2008 AZ28,&quot; in about four years, according to the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., the international authority on known objects in the solar system.<br/>*Geez, I hope they pick a better name.  Still, I'd be jazzed.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures: paper]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/58454/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[First Image of Approaching Asteroid]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48749/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Astronomers have obtained the first images of an asteroid on course to make its closest approach to Earth on Tuesday, showing the space rock is lopsided.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[France Urges Diplomacy For Earth-Threatening Asteroid]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/11088/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The news that an asteroid will pass close to Earth in 2036 prompted a group of scientists to recommend Saturday that the United Nations arrange an international space mission to deflect the threatening space rock.  France, however, immediately issued a statement urging restraint against &#8220;a seemingly lovely space rock we know nothing about,&#8221; and claimed that the United States was behind the call to take agressive action.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did our Solar System once have another planet?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41332/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The fiery demise of a fifth rocky planet in our Solar System might have led to a flurry of asteroid impacts that pockmarked the Moon and Earth billions of years ago.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asteroid Impact on Mars: Probability Increased to 1 in 25]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45417/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The chance that a rogue mini-world &#8212; asteroid 2007 WD5 &#8212; will smack into Mars has increased from 1.3 percent to 3.9 percent. In the event of an impact, the head-on collision would take place on January 30th at 2:55 a.m. PST, give or take a few minutes.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Makeup of Potentially Threatening Asteroid Determined ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38477/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The mineral composition of a near-Earth asteroid with a slight chance of striking our planet in 2036 has been determined for the first time. By analyzing sunlight reflected off its surface, scientists say the asteroid Apophis is a &quot;good match&quot; for a rare type of stony meteorite known as a type LL chondrite.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asteroid&#8217;s Martian impact: What might happen]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/46000/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The possibility of an asteroid walloping the planet Mars this month is whetting the appetites of Earth-bound scientists, even as they further refine the space rock's trajectory. The space rock in question &#8212; Asteroid 2007 WD5 &#8212; is similar in size to the object that carved Meteor Crater into northern Arizona some 50,000 years ago and is approaching Mars at about 30,000 miles per hour (48,280 kph).]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to destroy a giant planet]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43399/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Theorists have what they think is a good handle on how rocky planets like Earth form. Leftovers of star formation collide, stick together and eventually form a ball of rock. However, the formation of gas giant planets is more mysterious.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quakes hold key to planet's past ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/19232/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Australian scientists are using the energy of earthquakes in the Pacific region to probe the deep structure of the Earth as David Salt reports.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Earth in the past]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/5739/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Google skipped right past the third dimension and landed directly in the fourth (time) by offering historical maps on Google Earth.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth: A Borderline Planet for Life?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/47015/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Our planet is changing before our eyes, and as a result, many species are living on the edge. Yet Earth has been on the edge of habitability from the beginning. New work shows that if Earth had been slightly smaller and less massive, it would not have plate tectonics-the forces that move continents and build mountains. And without plate tectonics, life might never have gained a foothold on our world.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tunguska asteroid size downgraded by new computer simulations]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/67192/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The explosion that caused such incredible forest devastation at Tunguska a century ago in Siberia may have been caused by an asteroid only a fraction as large as previously published estimates, new supercomputer simulations suggest.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asteroid renamed for 'Star Trek' actor]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/37219/1/</link><description><![CDATA[An asteroid between Mars and Jupiter has been renamed 7307 Takei in honor of the actor George Takei known for his role as Hikaru Sulu in the original &quot;Star Trek&quot; series and movies.]]></description></item></channel></rss>